lowest number of grains in your bat collection??

[rfritz10]

this might be a stupid question, but i was looking through my bats the other night and noticed the different grain count, im curious if anyone has a bat with a ridiculously low number of grains like 5 or so and is that even possible????

[joelsabi]

i know even less. how do you count grains? if someone would give me a visual that would help too. thanks

[CampWest]

knob end or barrel end?

[camarokids]

i know even less. how do you count grains? if someone would give me a visual that would help too. thanks

just like counting the rings on a tree.....

[brianborsch]

My Longoria World Series bat has like 10. I remember Tony Gwynn saying that anything under 15 grains he uses in games and anything above that he saves for BP. Something like that.

[brianborsch]

Thats the lowest grain count I have. I have seen some of the older vintage bats (from the early 1900's) with like 6 or 7 grain count. I am sure 5 is possible.

[mbrieve]

I don't remember who had this bat, but I remember seeing pictures of a Magglio Ordonez Nokona bat with an all natural finish that had a ridiculously low grain count. I hope someone saved a picture...

[brianborsch]

I actually had that bat too. That one was like 7 grains or so. I have since sold it. That was a solid bat.

BB

[Rossi46]

I have a Scott Rolen LS bat that has a very low grain count..... I believe it's about 7-8. I'll see if I can get a good picture of it.

[mr.miracle]

My Longoria World Series bat has like 10. I remember Tony Gwynn saying that anything under 15 grains he uses in games and anything above that he saves for BP. Something like that.

Gwynn loved his bats. He said they were his most personal baseball items, even more personal than his glove. In 1994, the year he hit .394, he used one bat for most of the season, an astonishing feat given that bats are broken today more than ever (hitters use as small and as light a bat as possible, with a skinny handle and fat barrel; Pete Incaviglia once broke 144 bats in one season because he simply overpowered his own bats). Gwynn didn't use his favorite bat against really tough left-handed pitchers, such as Jeff Fassero, who might get the split-fingered fastball inside on him, and perhaps break his bat. "I called it 'Seven Grains of Pain' because it was a seven-grain bat," Gwynn said. "The next spring training, I was really struggling, so I brought that bat out again. And I broke it in practice taking BP against Rob Picciolo [the Padres' first-base coach]. I broke it on Field 7."